Sister Timothy Marie Kennedy, O.C.D., a member of the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, was born and raised in Long Beach, California, the third of five children. She attended Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles and has a B.A. in English and an M.S. in educational administration. She has served in the retreat and education ministries of the Carmelite Sisters as retreat directress and vocation directress as well as teacher and principal in various schools. She currently resides at Casa Convent in Duarte, California. Sister Timothy Marie edited the two-volume In Love’s Safekeeping: The Letters of Mother Luisita and is the author of In the Face of Darkness: The Heroic Life and Holy Death of Mother Luisita (Sophia Institute Press, 2019). Sister Timothy Marie comes from a family of Irish writers and storytellers.